Ss General
“It battered us relentlessly, day and night. It was almost impossible to walk upright and we staggered along bent double, now and again dropping on all fours like animals. Sometimes an extra strong blast would pick a man up and carry him several yards before dumping him back in the snow like a discarded package. The cold had also intensified. The temperature had sunk so low that the constant tears which streamed from men's eyes were at once transformed into hard crystal droplets.
It became a...t last impossible to go on, and we dug ourselves into the snow and stayed buried for four days while the tempest raged all about us and whipped the drifts into great shining mountains. Struggling trees and bushes were torn from the ground and borne past us on invisible currents. On two occasions we saw wolf packs running before the wind, streaming past our snowholes with their scrawny necks extended and their yellow eyes gleaming. They took no notice of us, nor we of them. We were all too occupied keeping ourselves alive.MoreLess
It became a...t last impossible to go on, and we dug ourselves into the snow and stayed buried for four days while the tempest raged all about us and whipped the drifts into great shining mountains. Struggling trees and bushes were torn from the ground and borne past us on invisible currents. On two occasions we saw wolf packs running before the wind, streaming past our snowholes with their scrawny necks extended and their yellow eyes gleaming. They took no notice of us, nor we of them. We were all too occupied keeping ourselves alive.MoreLess
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